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Engineering of leader peptides for the secretion of recombinant proteins in bacteria

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-09-02
RES DEVMENT FOUND
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[0012]The present invention provides methods for the isolation of sequences that can serve as leader peptides to direct the export of heterologous proteins. One aspect of the invention allows the isolation of leader peptides capable of directing proteins to the Tat secretion pathway. Further, the present invention discloses methods for identifying leader peptide mutants that can confer improved protein export.

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However, green fluorescent protein in the periplasm was non-fluorescent indicating that the secreted protein was misfolded and thus the chromophore of the green fluorescent protein could not be formed.
However, there has been no evidence that leader peptides other than TorA can be employed to export heterologous proteins into the periplasmic space of E. coli.
However, the protein flux through the Tat export system is significantly lower than that of the more widely used Sec pathway.
Consequently, the accumulation and steady state yield of proteins exported via the Tat pathway is low.
The prior art is thus deficient in methods of directing efficient export of folded proteins from the cytoplasm.

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Bioinformatics Search for TAT-Specific Leader Peptides

[0064]Putative TAT leader peptides were found using the Protein-Protein “BLAST” search engine available through the National Center for Biotechnology Information website. The following search strings were entered: SRRRFLK (SEQ ID NO:2), SRRXFLX (SEQ ID NO:3), TRRXFLX (SEQ ID NO:4), SRRXXLK (SEQ ID NO:5), SRRXXLA (SEQ ID NO:6), TRRXXLK (SEQ ID NO:7), TRRXXLA (SEQ ID NO:8), SRRXXLT (SEQ ID NO:9), SRRXXIK (SEQ ID NO:10), SRRXXIA (SEQ ID NO:11), SRRXFIX (SEQ ID NO:12), SRRXFMK (SEQ ID NO:13), SRRXFVK (SEQ ID NO:14), SRRXFVA (SEQ ID NO:15), SRRQFLK (SEQ ID NO:16), RRXFLA (SEQ ID NO:17), and RRXFLK (SEQ ID NO:18). Searches were done for short, nearly exact matches and then screened for only those matches occurring within the first 50 residues of the protein while still maintaining the twin-arginines. The first 100 residues of each leader peptide were then examined by “SignalP”, a program for detecting Sec pathway leader peptides and cl...

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Bacterial Strains and Plasmids Construction

[0082]All strains and plasmids used in the following examples are listed in Table 5. E. coli strain XL1-Blue (recA1 endA1 gyrA96 thi-1 hsdR17 supE44 relA1 lac [F′ proAB laclqZΔM15Tn10 (Tetr)]) was used for all experiments unless otherwise noted. E. coli XL1-Blue tatB and XL1-Blue tatC were made using pFAT24 (Sargent et al. 1999) and pFAT166 (Bogsch et al, 1998) respectively according to established procedure (Bogsch et al., 1998). Strains were routinely grown aerobically at 37° C. on Luria-Bertani (LB) media and antibiotic supplements were at the following concentrations: ampicillin, 100 μg ml−1, chloramphenicol, 25 μg ml−1.

[0083]The plasmids constructed in the following examples were based on pBAD33 (Guzman et al., 1995) and were made using standard protocols Sambrook et al., 2000). Plasmid pGFP was constructed by cloning the GFPmut2 variant (Crameri et al., 1996) using the primers GFPXbaI (5′-GCGATGTCTAGAAGTAAAGG AGAAGAACTTTTCACT-3′, SEQ ...

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Flow Cytometric Analysis

[0085]Overnight cultures of XL1-Blue cells harboring GFP-based plasmids were subcultured into fresh LB medium with chloramphenicol and induced with 0.2% arabinose in mid-exponential phase growth. After 6 h, cells were washed once with PBS and 5 μl washed cells were diluted into 1 ml PBS prior to analysis using a Becton-Dickinson FACSort.

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Abstract

The present invention provides methods of isolating of leader peptides capable of directing export of heterologous proteins from the bacterial cytoplasm. The methods rely on the screening of libraries of putative leader peptides or of leader peptide mutants for sequences that allow rapid export and thus can rescue a short-lived reporter protein from degradation in the cytoplasm. The mutant leader peptides identified herein are shown to confer significantly higher steady state levels of export not only for short-lived reporter protein but also for other stable, long-lived proteins. These leader peptides can be used to direct or enhance protein secretion. The present invention further discloses methods for the export of cytoplasmically folded protein via the Tat pathway. Proteins having disulfide bonds are first folded within the cytoplasm in suitable oxidizing mutant strains. Such cytoplasmically pre-folded proteins containing disulfide bonds are then exported via the Tat pathway.

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[0001]This application claims the priority of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 337,452, filed Nov. 5, 2001, and U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 404,944, filed Aug. 21, 2002, in the name of George Georgiou and Matthew DeLisa and entitled “Engineering of Leader Peptides for the Secretion of Recombinant Proteins in Bacteria.” Both of the foregoing disclosures are specifically incorporated herein by reference in the entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates generally to the fields of genetic engineering and protein secretion. More specifically, the present invention relates to engineering of leader peptides for the secretion of recombinant proteins in bacteria.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]Proteins destined for secretion from the cytoplasm are synthesized with an N-terminal peptide extension of generally between 15–30 amino acids known as the leader peptide. The leader peptide is p...

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IPC IPC(8): C12Q1/68C07H21/04C07K14/00C07K14/195C12P21/00C12N15/10C12N15/62
CPCC12N15/625C12N15/1051C12N15/1086C07K2319/034C07K2319/60C07K2319/61C07K2319/95
Inventor GEORGIOU, GEORGEDELISA, MATTHEW
Owner RES DEVMENT FOUND
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